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Gynecologic Disorders. Some doctors still fear that women who participate in competitive sports suffer bad effects, including masculinization and menstrual disorders. But Illinois' Dr. Gyula J. Erdelyi insists that most of these fears are groundless. Reporting last week on a study of 729 Hungarian women athletes, Dr. Erdelyi called masculinization claims highly exaggerated," said that unfavorable changes in the menstrual cycle occur no more frequently among sportswomen (about 10%) than among nonathletic females. He also studied 172 pregnant women athletes, found complications of pregnancy less frequent than among nonathletes. Labor time was generally shorter, and the frequency of Caesarean...
...four London general hospitals. Dr. Dalton questioned 84 female accident victims (age range: 15 to 55), all of whom had normal, 28-day menstrual cycles. Her findings: 52% of the accidents occurred to women who were within four days, either way, of the beginning of menstruation. On a purely random basis, the rate would have been only 28.5% for the same eight days. Childless women, noted Dr. Dalton, appear to be abnormally accident-prone just before menstruation, while women who have borne children are vulnerable over the whole premenstrual and menstrual period...
Premenstrual and menstrual lethargy relaxes judgment and slows reaction time, said Dr. Dalton. "These findings," she concluded, "cause one to consider the wisdom of administering tranquilizers for premenstrual tension, which may well increase accident-proneness at the most dangerous time of the menstrual cycle...
...world or the next." To achieve this, the Mau Mau leadership forced its recruits, voluntary or involuntary, to seal their oaths by digging up corpses and eating their putrefied flesh, copulating with sheep, dogs or adolescent girls, and by drinking the famed "Kaberichia cocktail"-a mixture of semen and menstrual blood. And when he was assigned to kill an enemy of the movement, a sworn Mau Mau pledged himself to remove the eyeballs of his victim and drink the liquid from them...
RHYTHM. Based on the fact that a woman can conceive only within about 24 hours after ovulation. This usually occurs twelve to 16 days after the beginning of each menstrual cycle. But there is great variation among women, and even in one woman's cycles. Practiced by 20% of U.S. couples...